Work Experience Week 5

Today flew by and now I am so ready for bed!

I was pretty much left on my own today, as I am now more familiar with the different routines Clare has in place for each month.

I was given more to do on the newsletter, which is released at the end of the month. I had to link back to any relevant stories on the Swimming WA web page. It's already been a busy month!

I was given another new task to do today. I was taught how to search for new items from the Community Newspapers site. I had never come across this before, and was impressed by its efficiency. I also had to link these articles back to the web page.

The newsletter software was frustrating! I was a bit reluctant to admit to Clare that I was struggling, but she put me at ease when she admitted everybody found it had a mind of its own, and would keep doing the opposite to what you wanted it to!

I talked to Clare about our Hero campaign, and she seemed genuinely interested. She suggested I may even be able to source some helpful news items from the Community site.

We also talked about how Swimming WA is a non for profit organisation that relies on funding, volunteers and very clever budgetting. Money is allocated to each project but, as with many groups, there is never really enough for all the things you would like to do.

I finished the day off uploading more and more swim training sets. I am sure I am going to be swimming in my sleep tonight!

Next week I have a few articles to write and upload to the newsletter, and we have more work to do with their website.